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Inclinations: A Critique of Rectitude

Inclinations: A Critique of Rectitude

Paperback

Series: Square One: First-Order Questions in the Humanities

PhilosophyArt Criticism & TheoryLiterary Criticism

ISBN10: 1503600408
ISBN13: 9781503600409
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: Nov 2 2016
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.40
Language: English

In this new and accessible book, Italy's best known feminist philosopher examines the moral and political significance of vertical posture in order to rethink subjectivity in terms of inclination. Contesting the classical figure of homo erectus or upright man, Adriana Cavarero proposes an altruistic, open model of the subject--one who is inclined toward others. Contrasting the masculine upright with the feminine inclined, she references philosophical texts (by Plato, Thomas Hobbes, Immanuel Kant, Hannah Arendt, Elias Canetti, and others) as well as works of art (Barnett Newman, Leonardo da Vinci, Artemisia Gentileschi, and Alexander Rodchenko) and literature (Marcel Proust and Virginia Woolf).

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